Joyce Magnin
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Aging and recent widow Harriet Beamer insists she's getting along fine with her dog Humphrey in Philadelphia... until she falls for the fourth time, injuring her ankle, and causing her son and daughter-in-law to cry foul. Insisting Harriet move in with them in California, they make a bet that her ankle is broken, and she foolishly promises to move if they're right. Four x-rays later, Harriet's ankle - and her heart - are broken. She packs up, ships...
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©2011
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531 p.
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Now that her morbidly obese sister, Agnes Sparrow, is comfortably dieting at the Greenbrier Nursing Home, Griselda learns to fly - literally - after a pilot makes an emergency landing and creates quite a ruckus in the otherwise sleepy town of Bright's Pond. But Griselda's newfound freedom - and her flight time with handsome pilot, Cliff - is hampered by other happenings in town. Like the gold digger who prances around town and is supposedly engaged...
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2011
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547 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Newly widowed Charlotte Figg purchases a double-wide trailer sight unseen and moves to the Paradise Trailer Park. Unfortunately, neither the trailer nor Paradise is what Charlotte expected. But her new friend Rose Tattoo learns that Charlotte used to play softball, and convinces her to rally the women of Paradise into a team. Reluctant at first, Charlotte is soon coaching the Paradise Angels. That's when she discovers that the manager is abusing his...
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Bright's Pond novels volume 1
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2010
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571 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Agnes Sparrow is an unusual woman. No longer able or willing to leave her home, Agnes commits her life to prayer. And when she prays, miracles seem to happen. The townspeople are enamored of her talent, but Agnes wants to return to the true source of the miracles--God.